Eliogabalo o l'anarchico incoronato

Heliogabalus is a tale about a madman told by another madman – a fantastic ejaculation of the poetical mind. A thing named is a dead thing, and it’s dead because it is set apart. Antonin Artaud tells the story of Heliogabalus as though he writes an alchemical treatise and in the first section: The Cra Leggi tutto

This bitch was punk as fuck

Eliogabalo è Antonin Artaud, l’anarchico. E’ un libro di stile surrealista, quindi un po’ incasinato: frammentato, ripetitivo, con flussi di pensiero in libertà. L’introduzione non aiuta, molto ostica. Il quadro che ne viene fuori è però magnifico. E’ innanzitutto un libro avvicente, potendola consider Leggi tutto

I bought Burning From the Inside in my 11th summer, having no idea that “Antonin Artaud” meant anything beyond ‘fucking AMAZING Bauhaus song.’ I didn’t know the man, or if the name was really just a song character and title. Hey, I was 11 in Southern California in the 1980s. Don’t scoff! You found s Leggi tutto

Now this is a curiosity - one part flummery, one part insanity and one part genius. It is an account of sorts of the decadent teenage androgynous Emperor Heliogabalus. Not that the average reader (in which category I include myself) will have an earthly idea what this is all about (given the limits o Leggi tutto

qué lectura más chula me han entrado ganas de leer más cosas de artaud

Voice Claudia also describes the history of a potential, and probable, active-trait male in her territory. He declared himself a living god-emperor, and through marriage to Bene Gesserat Livia produced several generations of active-trait males. One appears to have been the first known Abomination, a Leggi tutto